Airdrop Goes Wrong: Army Humvees Crash to The Ground After Parachute Fail, Hohenfels

[jakeXT]

Not even a Humvee can withstand being dropped hundreds of feet to the earth! US Army destroys THREE vehicles in two minutes when parachutes fail during training mission
Vehicles were being flown into Hohenfels military base in Germany
Expensive equipment was smashed into pieces however
Soldiers can be heard whooping and cheering as they come loose
Army Humvees can cost as much as $220,000 each, depending on armor
Spokesman Maj Juan Martinez says an investigation is underway


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3552267/Not-Humvee-withstand-dropped-hundreds-feet-earth-Army-destroys-three-vehicles-parachutes-fail-training-mission.html

[liberalnarb]

1. What was the guy in the video so happy about?

[underpants]

4. I spent 3 field problems at Hohensfel

Usually in August so it was hot not Freezing like our gun dries in February.

To answer your question - this is a bit of gallows humor. They are probably laughing at the Army.

[liberalnarb]

6. I'd laugh at the stupidity of the situation.

But our tax dollars probably paid to build those trucks so it pisses me off more than it amuses me. Our military is at least 15 times the size of any other. We don't need to be spending so much on it. Especially with this kind of garbage.

[deathrind]

2. We can't afford

Healthcare and Education for all but we afford to lob Humvee's out of the plane without tying the parachute to it....

[liberalnarb]

7. e-fucking-xactly!!

[vkkv]

3. A demonstration in MILITARY INTELLIGENCE I presume... eom

[Turbineguy]

5. Laughing my ass off

the way tax payers do.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

13. Me, too

As a former C141 Air Force navigator, we occasionally had a malfunction on a drop. Fortunately they were "dummy loads" (a pile of railroad ties lashed together), but it was still funny as hell.

One time the drop zone (a farmer's field in NC) was so small we had to make ten passes, throwing out four soldiers each pass. When everyone was down safely we made a final low level (50 feet) pass in our big four engine jet. The DZ controller told us the troops loved it!



You know you're getting old when the airplane you used to fly is in the local military aircraft museum...

[Old Crow]

8. Well, whoever packed those parachutes...

... did about $400,000 worth of damage due to negligence or imcompetence or both.

My guess is that you had three teams packing chutes, and every Humvee chute packed by one team was botched: three planes, one botched Humvee chute apiece.

Derp.

[PJMcK]

11. Probably more money

If the Humvees cost $200,00 apiece and there were three crashes, well, you do the math. Additionally, and equally important, the cleanup will be expensive as will the inevitable investigation and re-training.

Our military has too much money and as death rind wrote above (Reply #2), our country wastes money on defense but neglects our own citizens. We are a pathetic nation in this regard.

[Hoppy]

9. I'm a taxpayer and I think it is pretty fuckin' funny.

[Hulk]

10. I hate Humvees

I'm driving for Uber and Lyft now, and last night I picked up three intoxicated Texans from Houston. It didn't take five minutes before one of the sots admitted he didn't give a rat's ass about the flooding in Houston this week, " because that's why I have a Humvee."
What a complete ass hole. More to the story, but I'll leave it at that. SUV's are bad enough, but Humvee owners seem to think they are detached from earth with the monstrosity vehicles that were meant for military purpose.
I'm a "vehicle bigot". Say what you want.

[PJMcK]

12. Agree about all Hummers

A co-worker bought an H3 which was the more "eco-friendly" Hummer (is that an oxymoron?). She couldn't park it because she had trouble seeing the rear quarters of the vehicle. But the best part was when she complained about how little cargo space the H3 actually had. No kidding, I got more stuff in my Toyota Camry than she could in the H3. Stupid vehicles purchased by questionable drivers.